- Creative ways to have our lost one present on your important day/Wedding day
- Tribute
- A way to comfort someone in an emotional time to make it
- Different creative ways to have them there
http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-5-stages-of-loss-and-grief/-Psych Central
- Different stages, not necessarily in specific order
- Stage1: Denial and Isolation- block of reality
- Stage2: Anger
- Stag3: Bargaining- If this then outcome will be different
- Stage4: Depression- 2 types: 1) sadness and regret, loss 2)subtle, private (need comforting)
- Stage5: Acceptance
“Remember, grieving is a personal process that has no time limit, nor one “right” way to do it”
Helping Teenagers Who Have Lost a Parent
- Each teenager’s grief experience is unique- Different factor of how to react
- feeling different is uncomfortable, don’t want to be like an outsider
- Teenagers need privacy, don’t force them to talk
- Stick with daily routines
The Lifelong Effects for a Child After the Death of a Parent
- “As the life span progresses and the individual reaches adulthood, the psychological and interpersonal consequences of this disturbance may manifest in long-term mental health problems”
- Environment is important (Family)
- “younger a child was at the time of the loss, the more likely they were to develop mental health problems, including anxiety, mood, or substance abuse issues”
- Never prepared, grief never goes away
- Could tear families a part or get them closer
- Losing a parent makes you want to have a child so you could finish unfinished childhoods for them
Part Three: Academic sources
Kuntz, B. “Exploring the Grief of Adolescents After the Death of a Parent.” Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 4.3 (1991). Print.
“The study conclusions were that adolescents do grieve differently from children and differently from adults”
Stikkelbroek, Y, P Prinzie, Graaf R. de, Have M. Ten, and P Cuijpers. “Parental Death During Childhood and Psychopathology in Adulthood.” Psychiatry Research. 198.3 (2012): 516-20. Print.
Dietrich, DR. “Psychological Health of Young Adults Who Experienced Early Parent Death: Mmpi Trends.” Journal of Clinical Psychology. 40.4 (1984): 901-8. Print.
Ellis, J, C Dowrick, and M Lloyd-Williams. “The Long-Term Impact of Early Parental Death: Lessons from a Narrative Study.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 106.2 (2013): 57-67. Print.
Nickerson, A, D.E Hinton, I.M Aderka, S.G Hofmann, and R.A Bryant. “The Impacts of Parental Loss and Adverse Parenting on Mental Health: Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication.” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 5.2 (2013): 119-127. Print.